[gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

[ABCD <en.ABCD@gmail.com>]

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Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 08/19/2009 02:11 AM, Dan Farrell wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:27:57 +0300
>> Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>  wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/18/2009 02:00 AM, Dale wrote:
>>>> I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed.  While
>>>> init-/bin/bash would work, it shouldn't be the only option.
>>>
>>> I filed a bug for it: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281850
>>>
>>
>> In a pinch, you can also use the argument init=/bin/bash to get a
>> bash shell up without using init.  It's saved me a CD or a heap of
>> trouble a few times.
> 
> The real problem is that I can't boot the box into a VM anymore.  On
> this machine, I have three grub entries: "softlevel=native",
> "softlevel=vmware" and "softlevel=xen", each booting a suitable kernel
> and moving the right xorg.conf into /etc/X11.  That functionality is
> lost and is a major problem.
> 

What I believe you are supposed to do now is edit /etc/inittab, changing
the commands to run at init runlevels 2-5 to match the rc runlevel that
you want to enter.  Then you can pass the proper number on the kernel
command line.

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